Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUSFor there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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